Before you design a label, Labeljoy needs to know what you're printing on: the paper, and how the labels are arranged on it. That's the layout. What goes on the labels is organized in label sets, and anything that belongs to the page rather than to a label is a page element.

The layout. A layout is a sheet of paper divided into a grid of labels: how many columns and rows, the page margins around them and the gaps between them. You don't type in the size of the labels: Labeljoy works it out from the paper, the margins, the gaps and the number of labels. Every document has one layout, and every page of it uses the same one.

Three ways to get your layout
The layout library	Pick the labels you bought by their brand and model, such as Avery - 5160, and Labeljoy sets everything up. It's the quickest way.
The Layout panel	Set the paper, the rows and columns, the gaps and the margins yourself, for labels that aren't in the library.
The Layout wizard	The same, one step at a time, starting from the size of a label. See The Layout panel.

Measure a sheet of your labels with a ruler before you set up a layout by hand: the label size, the margin from the top and left edges of the sheet, and the gap between two labels.

Label sets. A label set is a group of identical labels: the same design, the same data source, and a number of labels. A new document has one. Add more to print different labels on the same sheet - addresses and price tags, say - each set starting where the one before ends. See Label sets.

Page elements. A page element sits on the page, not on a label: a heading, a logo, a note for whoever handles the sheets. It's printed once on each page, wherever you put it. See Page elements.